Following a vow, the reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546) joined the strict mendicant order of Augustinian hermits in 1505. Two years later he was ordained a priest and in 1512 he was appointed professor of biblical exegesis at the University of Wittenberg, a position he held until his death.
He did not want to found a new religion, but rather to eliminate undesirable developments in the Roman Catholic Church at the time and restore (re-form) it to its original Protestant form. Among other things, he denounced the then widespread sale of indulgences, the buying of sins. On 31 October 1517, he wrote his famous 95 theses against the church 's practice of penance (the fact that he posted them on the church door is probably just a legend). He ultimately triggered the Reformation and division of the church (not his intention).
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